Changing doll heads, also known as rebodying, can be a fun and creative way to customize your dolls. This How to Change Doll Heads: Rebodying tutorial will guide you through the process step by step. This method includes using boiling water to soften the plastic so if you prefer to use the hairdryer for that instead, check out my other tutorial How to change the dolls’ bodies – Head swap tutorial. What you need:1) Doll you want to change    2) Second doll with a Made to Move body in a matching skin tone    3) Plastic bag    4) Mug or bowl    5) Boiling w ..read more

Whether you buy pre-loved dolls or you play a lot with yours, the doll hair condition tends to worsen with time. Is it possible to repair damaged doll hair? Yes, and it’s easier than you might think. I documented what I usually do to fix the doll’s hair and I prepared this 5-step doll hair repair tutorial for you. I hope you’ll find it helpful! As usual, if you have any additional questions after looking at the tutorial, feel free to comment under this post or send me a DM on my Instagram @margaretanndolls as I’m the most active there. Now let’s go! : ) HOW TO FIX THE DOLL’S HAIR Step by step ..read more

One of the questions you ask me the most is how to straighten the doll’s hair. That’s why I prepared this step by step tutorial and I hope you’ll find it helpful. Of course, if you have any additional questions after looking at the tutorial, feel free to comment under this post or send me a DM on my Instagram @margaretanndolls as I’m the most active there. Now let’s go! : ) HOW TO STRAIGHTEN THE DOLL’S HAIR Step by step tutorial Step 1 – Get a doll. For this “how to straighten the doll’s hair” tutorial we will straighten the hair of the Barbie BMR1959 doll. In the pictures below you can see ho ..read more

The holiday season has officially began and it’s time to get into the festive mood! The doll community has several lovely holiday traditions like photography challenges, themed parties or gift exchanges, and my personal favorite is sending Christmas cards. Every year a lot of you prepare paper and/or digital versions of their cards and shares them with friends both in human size and in dolly size (1/6 scale). I especially love receiving the cards by post and I treasure all of them (please find the photo of the cards I received last year at the end of the post). If you’d like to download my Chr ..read more

Join me as we take a walk around my beloved hometown, Torun, Poland, with my dolls wearing the famous pair of jeans. #travelingdollpants #maddolllove Traveling Doll Pants is an international project connecting doll enthusiasts from all over the world. The project started in January 2020 in Gdansk, Poland. Since then the pants have been traveling all over the world, visiting the places where doll photographers live. To learn more about the project, go to www.travelingdollpants.com . The pants have arrived in Torun in February 2022 and first, we took you on a little tour around the Old Town ..read more

There are a few ways how to swap the dolls’ heads and today I will share with you mine! I’ve used it countless times already and did not have any issues, so I recommend you try it too. Make sure to read all the tips below and watch the video tutorial on my IGTV on Instagram @margaretanndolls . How to change the doll’s bodies Head swap tutorial STEP 1 – Get two dolls: one for the head, the second one for the body Usually, this means getting one doll with a beautiful face but basic, non-articulated body and the second doll with an articulated body. The most popular body swaps occur between Barbi ..read more

#MADTUTORIALS series continues! Today we’ll go through a quick and easy tutorial on how to create a new doll from a more unexpected source. We’ve all seen and done head swaps from Fashionistas doll into Made to Move bodies but Fashionistas are not the only dolls that could benefit from a poseable body. The Barbie playline dolls are often neglected by Barbie fans and collectors and it’s not without a reason. These dolls usually are not very sophisticated, instead they are plain and simple because they are targeted to a young demographic (which is too often treated as not deserving of good quali ..read more

First impression Seeing new Barbie Made to Move dolls always makes me excited. It doesn’t matter if they are part of the yoga/fitness, Fashionistas or Career line. As you probably know, I consider Barbie Made To Move dolls as body donors for regular Fashionistas and other dolls who have limited articulation. New release of MTM dolls always mean that there is a chance for new skintone matches, and therefore a chance to give more non-articulated dolls new bodies. Barbie Fashionistas 165, 166, 167 To me the most exciting doll out of the three is definitely Ken. It’s the first Made to Move Ken rel ..read more

First impression Rainbow High dolls caught my eye from the first time I saw them online. However, I wasn’t sold on getting any of them until I saw Bella Parker doll. I decided to get this pastel pink beauty to check out this new doll line and see if I’d like to start collecting Rainbow High dolls. Rainbow High Bella Parker Doll This doll stole my heart the moment I saw her. I love Bella’s color scheme and her stylish outfits. Yes, outfits! It’s fantastic that she comes not with the one, but two beautiful sets of clothes that you can mix and match as you wish. She has lovely hair and even thoug ..read more

First impression New Barbie Careers dolls! You can imagine how excited I was when I found the new dolls of Rhythmic Gymnast & Salon Stylist in the nearby grocery (!) store. They were so new that at the checkout the lady couldn’t find them in the system so she had to call her colleague who helped her get the price. Rhythmic Gymnast & Salon Stylist New 2021 Barbie Careers Rhythmic Gymnast & Salon Stylist are beautiful dolls. I absolutely love their faces and I’m already planning on putting them on Made to Move bodies. To be honest, I bought these two dolls mainly because of their fac ..read more